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Welcome to the website of the Manipal-City & Guilds (MCG). Manipal City & Guilds is an India-UK joint venture founded in 2009. We combine the strengths of Manipal Global Education Services, which has 50 years of steadfast focus in India’s education sector and a presence that includes 3 universities and over 30 institutions, and City & Guilds, a 130-year-old World leader in skills development that provides curriculum, course content, assessment, certification services and 600+ qualifications across over 80 countries...Read more

Our Focus Areas

Training & Services

Assessment & Certification

Quality Assurance

Content Development

Policy & Research

Business Head Speaks

I am delighted to welcome you to the new Manipal City & Guilds website.

Manipal City & Guilds was formed in September 2009 and has promoted its training services from the website www.indiaskills.com.

Of course our company has always been about more than training services – we have a long history in India of offering quality assurance, accreditation, assessment & certification as well as teacher training...
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If you are undertaking any form of work-related learning, or considering doing so, then there is a lot of information available to help you make the most of your learning and move on to a successful career. Below are some links to other organisations and resources that you might find useful.

If you have a story to tell about how vocational education has had an impact on your life, get in touch! We would love to hear about it and you could help us spread the word about what vocational education offers to learners.

WorldSkills – get inspired by the achievements of vocational learners from around the world, and find out how you could showcase your skills in an international competition.

iRize – make the transition from skills training into your first step on the career ladder.

Skills can only build a prosperous future for individuals and for India if they lead to fulfilling and well-paid work. This means that it’s crucial to understand what skills employers need in order to ensure that training is meeting these needs. The crucial role that employers need to play in skills development therefore can’t be overstated.

If you are an Indian employer already engaged in training your staff or investing in training the workforce of the future, we would love to hear from you so that we can spread the word about your existing initiative/s and share the best practices as one of India’s leading organisation in this area. If you would like to know more about how Manipal and City & Guilds can help support you in your training efforts , please visit the Manipal City & Guilds, for help with finding the right skilled staff, please visit the iRize site.

You may also be interested in some of our research reports. In particular, our recent report on what makes an effective Sector Skills Council, A Global Study to get India World-Ready, will be of value for any employer looking to engage with India’s new Sector Skills Councils, and particularly to those looking to play a leading role in their formation.... Read more

Policy Maker

Our goal is to build this website as a useful resource for policy makers, who need a solid basis of evidence about what works in order to make the policy decisions that will work for India. Our policy tools and our research reports will be freely available to download and use, and will aim to provide concrete recommendations for policy based on international research evidence. If you are a policy maker, or otherwise interested in Indian skills policy, please feel free to get in touch with us to discuss how we might further support you.

You may also wish to visit the City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development (CSD) website. CSD takes an international approach to improving policy and practice in vocational education, and has undertaken a number of projects in India as well as in the UK, Ghana and South Africa. Their knowledge portal provides a particularly useful store of information on a wide variety of skills topics...Read more

Researcher

If you are an India-based research organisation interested in vocational education, skills development, economic development or related areas, please get in touch with us. We are always looking for potential partners to work with us on research projects that will help to inform policy development in the area of skills in India.

You may also be interested in the research resources available from the City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development....Read more

NGO

If you represent an Indian NGO working in an area related to vocational education, skills development or economic development, we’d love to hear from you. We are always open to new idea for project partnerships, or suggestions of good practice examples that could be used as a basis for a case study.

You may also find the resources available from the City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development useful....Read more

Training Provider

If you are running a successful vocational training initiative in India, do get in touch to tell us about it and help us spread the word about existing good practice in the country. If you also engage in Advocacy role, do let us know areas which you focus on and we can look at an opportunity to collaborate to strengthen our voice.

If you would like to know about the qualifications offered by Manipal and City & Guilds in India, please visit the Manipal City & Guilds website.

You may also like to visit the website of the City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development, which has plenty of useful resources relating to vocational teaching and learning freely available to download.....Read more